Kid Writing-Author’s Chair

The 4th and final step in a Kid Writing lesson was author’s chair. At the end of Kid Writing time, three child authors were featured and invited to take turns sitting in the author’s chair. The teacher participants read the child’s writing to demonstrate fluent, expressive reading and then encouraged the audience to ask questions about the story or information. The teacher then followed with “two praises and a push” (Feldgus, Cardonick, & Gentry, 2017, p. 41) to honor the child’s work and teach or review a sound-symbol relationship or the spelling of a high-frequency word.

The creators of Kid Writing caution not to skip this step because this is where skills of phonemic awareness, orthographic mapping, handwriting, and spelling of high-frequency sight words are reinforced and practiced (Feldgus, Cardonick, & Gentry, 2017).

References

Feldgus, E. G., Cardonick, I., & Gentry, J. R. (2017). Kid writing in the 21st century: A systematic approach to phonics, spelling, and writing workshop. Los Angeles, CA: Hameray Publishing Group.